>A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme Court, repeatedly rejected maps with just one such district.
> Yet the legislature, given the opportunity to redraw the map, refused to enact a plan that included a second congressional district that would allow Black voters to elect the candidate choice, sticking instead to a map that had only one majority-Black district.
>A court-appointed expert drew a temporary map for the 2024 election, and, for the first time in 150 years, Alabama elected two Black people to its congressional delegation that year.
Racist traitors.
lalabera on
Trump cheated in 2024 in the swing states
Toadfinger on
Congressman Mo Brooks actually bragged about the gerrymandering in 2011. Saying there’s no way now (then) a Democrat can win AL-05.
EDIT: word
ultralightdude on
I’m not surprised, because they have done this elsewhere (TX, NC, just as examples). It’s just sad. I’m glad the new map was approved, and some representation came out of it though.
snowlion000 on
Robert’s SCOTUS gutted Section 4 of The Voting Rights Act. Therefor pre-clearance is history!
DominusGenX on
That’s so unlike Alabama 🙄🙄🙄
AmorousAlpaca on
The problem is that getting caught has no repercussions. It just gets corrected. So there is every incentive to default to corruption know that if you get away with it 1 out of a hundred times, it is still a net win.
Oleg101 on
Was *The Machine* part of this?
Ok-Gazelle-6225 on
Hate crimes. No accountability.
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>A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme Court, repeatedly rejected maps with just one such district.
> Yet the legislature, given the opportunity to redraw the map, refused to enact a plan that included a second congressional district that would allow Black voters to elect the candidate choice, sticking instead to a map that had only one majority-Black district.
>A court-appointed expert drew a temporary map for the 2024 election, and, for the first time in 150 years, Alabama elected two Black people to its congressional delegation that year.
Racist traitors.
Trump cheated in 2024 in the swing states
Congressman Mo Brooks actually bragged about the gerrymandering in 2011. Saying there’s no way now (then) a Democrat can win AL-05.
EDIT: word
I’m not surprised, because they have done this elsewhere (TX, NC, just as examples). It’s just sad. I’m glad the new map was approved, and some representation came out of it though.
Robert’s SCOTUS gutted Section 4 of The Voting Rights Act. Therefor pre-clearance is history!
That’s so unlike Alabama 🙄🙄🙄
The problem is that getting caught has no repercussions. It just gets corrected. So there is every incentive to default to corruption know that if you get away with it 1 out of a hundred times, it is still a net win.
Was *The Machine* part of this?
Hate crimes. No accountability.